External Resources
Presentation Tools
Nearpod
Nearpod helps educators make any lesson interactive whether in the classroom or virtual. The concept is simple. A teacher can create interactive presentations that can contain Quizzes, Polls, Videos, Collaborate Boards, and more.
Pear Deck
This is an interactive presentation tool designed to keep students engaged in both individual and social learning.
EdPuzzle
Empower students to take an active role in their learning with interactive video lessons that spark creativity and curiosity.
Padlet
Padlet provides a cloud-based software-as-a-service, hosting a real-time collaborative web platform in which users can upload, organize, and share content to virtual bulletin boards called "padlets"
Whiteboard and Note Taking Tools
Google Jamboard
Jamboard is a digital interactive whiteboard developed by Google to work with Google Workspace
Whiteboard.fi
This is an interactive-whiteboard tool that captures students' whiteboards in real-time. Easily accessible and multifaceted this interactive tool can be used in a variety of ways.
Book Snaps
This tutorial uses Google Drawings as a template for students to highlight what they learned from text into a Text Pictorial.
Sketchnoting
Sketchnoting is a note-taking technique that taps into both the verbal and visual processing powers of your brain in a way that makes you a better learner, problem-solver, and storyteller.
Virtual Games and Review Materials
Crowd Buzzer
This online educational gaming tool assists with gamification in the classroom. It allows students to buzz in their answers to questions posed in review types of settings or in the use of checks for understanding.
Blooket
A new take on trivia and review games!
Kahoot
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to the classroom.
Quizizz
Motivate every student to mastery with easy-to-customize content combined with tools for inclusive assessment, instruction, and practice.
GameKit
Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win.
Wooclap
Wooclap is an interactive electronic platform used to create polls and questionnaires. The site's users answer questions anonymously through technology devices such as smartphones or laptops
Socrative
Engage, assess and personalize your class with Socrative! Educators can initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races all with their Socrative.
Formative
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Mentimeter
Mentimeter allows the teacher to create presentations with real-time feedback on mobile with presentations, polls or brainstorming sessions in classes, meetings, gatherings, conferences and other group activities.
Study Resources
Poll Everywhere
This website provides polls, collaboration boards, and has online competition activities.
Flippity
Easily turn a Google™ Spreadsheet into a Set of Online Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff!
Quizlet
This is a web-based tool that allows teachers to create study tools for students to use interactively for quizzes, tests, and flashcards to name a few. Quizlet allows itself to be used as a study tool while incorporating matching games and other study games.
Study Stack
Memorize information in a fun and engaging way. Students can share flashcards and StudyStack automatically creates other games and activities for them.
Virtual and Video Tools to Enhance Instruction
FlipGrid
Flip Grid is an educational tool that allows students to create a short 60 second (time could be extended if necessary) video highlighting what they learned from a lesson.
PowToon
Harness the power of toons to bring your message to life, making your viewers say “Got it!” with a little extra POW!
Wheel of Names
Website that allows you to randomly select students names to call on students in class.
Virtual Field Trips
Students can experience the best virtual field trips without getting on a bus, or even leaving their homes.
Google Chrome Extensions
Text Blaze
Text Blaze is an auto text Chrome Extension to insert snippets, templates and macros in Google Chrome.
Hive AI
Check text to see how much it was written by AI and how much was written by a student.
Egg Timer
Virtual Timer: In the Omni (address bar) you can add an Egg-Timer (virtual timer for your lessons)
Read Aloud
Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio. It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, and online university course materials.
Equatio
Easily create mathematical equations, formulas and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn. Equatio makes math digital, helping teacher and students at all levels create math expressions quickly and easily